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I am a kite Designer and kite maker for more then 20 years, I compete seen 1988 and fly all my kites, I start from an Old school and New school, if you have any question about SD and Fearless kites please feel free to ask me anytime. Remember only SD and Fearless kite, I don't know any other kite. I don't like comparing from one kite to the other. I don't like to go in to the forum anymore because many problem in here. Everyone have different taste. Every kite have different feel, so please do what you want and buy what you like. If you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all. Please go to the next table and some will join you there. No one ask you to come here and cause more problem for other people that want to know learn about kitting. Kitting should be fun and help each other not here to fight and see who is the winner. If you want to compete with me, four line and two line from 1 MPH to 35 MPH. I will see you on the beach face to face anytime. We all live and learn from each other. Remember that. Thanks for reading this. Have a great day everyone. Take care.

I have a feeling the moderators have gone and made me miss some of the fireworks here, dang it.

Seriously Lam, don't take ANY of this stuff personally. Debate about your kites can only be good for you and your craft, which by the way all of us here are interested in having around for a long time to come.

Folks were making crazy sounding claims regarding the magic of the Fearless, and others are just calling their bluffs. Any personal attacks are just crazy, and miss the point of the forum. Unfortunately, it is an open forum, so this happens from time to time. I think these sorts of debates are wonderful, and as long as we can stay humorous and calm, they make the forum a joy to read and post in. Could it be better? Sure. But if all the threads were sunshine and unicorns, it would all be sorta...lame. Passion is good.

No one is suggesting that you are marketing your kite dishonestly, or making claims you can't back up. That's for sure, so rest easy. You build amazing kites and are master of your craft. You are losing ZERO face here.

obi

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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." L daVinci

One more thing guy, please go and practice and get good at it, maybe some day you might get an invitation to many place to fly with many great pilot around the world, don't sitting here and wasting your time. The reason I am say this because I have many invitation to many country to fly kite and get to travel over the place, drinking beer, eat good food fly on beautiful beach meet nice friend. This year I will be in Viet Nam, France, Malysia and Viet Nam again and few more other, everything pay for and just have fun flying kite and have a great time. So do you think this is a good idea or not? Play safe and have fun out there.

Hi Lam,I've read claims of some very wide wind ranges for your unvented UL. Do you recommend flying them in 20mph+ and feel confident they will suffer no harm as a result? Do you personally consider the UL still usable in 20mph or would you prefer to switch to a standard or vent by 20mph.

Honestly, no cynicism intended - if you have developed a UL that will happily fly in 20mph I'm genuinely impressed. Unfortunately I'm not likely to get to try one over here (UK) to find out for myself any time soon and its a lot of money to spend on a kite I've not tried first...

LAMS kites rocks ! i flew the LIGHT in 20+ mph and it was 3pts in the LE. and it flew 100% i could not really trick it since i didnt have much weight in it however the traction of it was amazing did he contest and rocked it. if a light could do that then any of his kites could do it.

Hi Lam,I've read claims of some very wide wind ranges for your unvented UL. Do you recommend flying them in 20mph+ and feel confident they will suffer no harm as a result? Do you personally consider the UL still usable in 20mph or would you prefer to switch to a standard or vent by 20mph.

Honestly, no cynicism intended - if you have developed a UL that will happily fly in 20mph I'm genuinely impressed. Unfortunately I'm not likely to get to try one over here (UK) to find out for myself any time soon and its a lot of money to spend on a kite I've not tried first...

CheersIan

Hello Ian,

If you can make the Cratock weekend, I will be there with my 4 Fearless kites (SUL, UL, STD and Vented STD). You will more than welcome to try the kites.

One more thing guy, please go and practice and get good at it, maybe some day you might get an invitation to many place to fly with many great pilot around the world, don't sitting here and wasting your time. The reason I am say this because I have many invitation to many country to fly kite and get to travel over the place, drinking beer, eat good food fly on beautiful beach meet nice friend. This year I will be in Viet Nam, France, Malysia and Viet Nam again and few more other, everything pay for and just have fun flying kite and have a great time. So do you think this is a good idea or not? Play safe and have fun out there.

Lam

Lam, forget about the forum talk. A bunch of us from Singapore are going up to Vietnam next week too. Really looking forward to meeting you for the first time and flying and learning from you (Hope you have a Fearless out there so I can play with it)

Vented Light fly from 3 to 25+ mph, this kite design for wind that go up and down, bumpy wind, so you can enjoy in this kind of wind condition.

This is why I ended up ordering the FVL over the STD and so far You either like how Lam's kites fly or you don't. I do. I'm pretty impressed with the wind range and very happy with how the kite tricks. Fits me well.

Vented Light fly from 3 to 25+ mph, this kite design for wind that go up and down, bumpy wind, so you can enjoy in this kind of wind condition.

This is why I ended up ordering the FVL over the STD and so far You either like how Lam's kites fly or you don't. I do. I'm pretty impressed with the wind range and very happy with how the kite tricks. Fits me well.

Peace

If I can ever get my hands on one to see if it likes me, I am thinking one of these could be in my future!

If anybody would like to try some of the Fearless line I'm traveling south from Oregon this Fri afternoon & will be in Chico Ca. Sat. afternoon & then in San Diego next Mon. thru Fri. I'll have the S,SUL,L, & STD Vented.

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